IDENTITY
Histoire de la littérature anglaise
Other Nonfiction
Work Summary
A multi-volume history of English literature interpreting writers and literary movements in relation to historical, social and cultural conditions. Taine develops a strongly systematic approach in which literature is treated as evidence for the character and development of societies as well as the achievement of individual writers.
Evidence Summary
The book served as an intermediary source for his Carlyle reading and copied extracts.
Documents mediated reading: Van Gogh encountered Carlyle through Taine.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Hippolyte Taine
Work
Histoire de la littérature anglaise
Years / Period
30 Oct 1877
Van Gogh Relation
Read, Quoted / Copied
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
30 Oct 1877 — Letter 133 + scholarly note
Read · Read / used as source
Van Gogh says he found passages from Carlyle in a book by Taine; editors identify Histoire de la littérature anglaise as the most likely source.
Response: The book served as an intermediary source for his Carlyle reading and copied extracts.
Connection: Documents mediated reading: Van Gogh encountered Carlyle through Taine.
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